India's Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: What are the Tradeoffs?

Mani, Muthukumara; Markandya, Anil; Sagar, Aarsi; Sahin, Sebnem

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-6208

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“…This assumes importance from the point of policy-making, where decisions about preserving natural capital need to be made. Another World Bank study estimated the extent of environmental degradation in India to be about ₹3.75 trillion as of 2009, which was 5.7% of the GDP (Mani et al 2012). This study focused largely on damages due to air pollution, land degradation, and water and sanitation but did not examine coastal and marine issues.…”

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Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India

K.S.

R.C.²,

Mukhopadhyay³

et al. 2022

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a host of services that are of vital importance to human well-being. We estimate the values of several provisioning, regulating, and recreational services using a combination of valuation methods. We find that the total value of these services in India was approximately ₹1.9 trillion (or US$0.11 trillion in purchase price parity [PPP] terms) in 2012–13, which constitutes about 2.4% of India’s net national product that year. Recreational services account for the largest share (45%), followed by regulating services (35%) and provisioning services (20%). These estimates do not include all the services provided by coastal and marine ecosystems; therefore, our estimates should be treated as a conservative underestimate of their total economic value. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such attempt at the national level in India.

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Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India

K.S.

R.C.²,

Mukhopadhyay³

et al. 2022

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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“…However, such taxes may increase the price of energy intensive products and reduce competitiveness of such manufactures in the global market. Mani et al (2012) simulate the impact of a carbon tax in the case of India and indicate that the loss in GDP is more than compensated by reduced carbon emissions and improved health outcomes.…”

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Economic growth and reduced carbon emissions: the impact of carbon pricing policies

Chipalkatti¹,

Rishi²

2019

IJTCS

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Many countries are adopting carbon pricing policies like carbon taxes and/or carbon cap and trade to address climate change. This paper answers two research questions within this context-what is the impact of carbon policies on the economic growth-carbon emissions nexus? And, does adoption of carbon pricing policies by a country result in an increased incentive to relocate carbon intensive activities to other countries viz. the so-called 'pollution haven effect'? Results suggest that cap and trade policies significantly reduce energy use per capita and mitigate carbon emissions. Global cap and trade policies are significantly associated with higher economic growth in offshore manufacturing destinations but carbon taxes in adopting nations do not impel a similar effect. Neither type of carbon policy has a significant impact on energy use per capita and carbon intensity in top manufacturing destination countries. Our findings thus do not support a pollution haven effect.

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“…Computable general equilibrium models are being adapted with different infrastructure modules enabling this type of analysis in specific countries or regions without depending on cross-country data. This has been recently done with specific infrastructures in Pakistan (transport, see Sanchez-Triana et al 2013) and India (energy, see Mani et al 2012). As in the Pakistan study, distributive impacts can also be estimated, thereby indicating how infrastructure investments may impact poverty via increased economic growth.…”

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A Methodological Framework for Prioritising Infrastructure Investment

Andrés

Biller

Dappe

2016

Journal of Infrastructure Development

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Policy makers are often confronted with a myriad of factors in the investment decision-making process. This issue is particularly acute in infrastructure decisions since these often involve large sums and lock-in technologies. In regions and countries where the infrastructure access gap is large and public budgets severely constrained, the importance of considering the different facets of the decisionmaking process becomes even more relevant. This is the case for South Asia. This article presents the infrastructure access gap in South Asia and discusses the impacts that this gap has in South Asian economies. It examines the links between the infrastructure and economic growth and infrastructure and welfare/poverty. The article reviews different methodologies to measure these impacts and hence serve as mechanisms to establish priorities. Finally, the article presents a methodology to holistically equate trade-offs among different policy objectives per key infrastructure sectors.

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India's Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: What are the Tradeoffs?

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India

Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in India

Economic growth and reduced carbon emissions: the impact of carbon pricing policies

A Methodological Framework for Prioritising Infrastructure Investment

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